SERAIKISTAN IS OUR RIGHT People should realise how incredibly offensive it is when they claim that Seraiki is just a dialect of Punjabi and not a different language. Seraiki is an ancient language, rich with heritage that represents its people. Some even argue that linguistically, Punjabi may be a ...

Sindh is older than Pakistan: minister Federal Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Senator Maula Bux Chandio said that Sindh for thousands of years had remained a single entity dominated by Sindhi culture and language. Talking about the 20th amendment and creation of the new provinces in Pun...

Yes we've had all these discussions before. I always wanted to understand if there were any military tactical reasons for Indian armies to NOT engage in long committed pursuits; or was it just an inherent cultural, philosophical trait that fleeing enemy should not be striked upon. So could you post ...

The army of Harshvardhana The array contained contingents of cavalry-detachments commanded by their own Rajput leaders. There is no description of the cavalcade of the Royal seraglio which formed so conspicuous a section of the Mogul army on march as described by Manucci. Probably Harsha was unmarr...

Fake army general dupes Pakistanis Maqsood Shah, an administrator at a hospital, was nabbed in Malir cantonment as he strolled in while wearing the uniform of a lieutenant general. The police have confiscated an AK-47 rifle, a Blackberry and a car from Shah’s possession. “He didn’t spare anyone. He...

Islamophobia in China: Violence Breaks Out in Xinjiang What happened in Xinjiang? The state claimed that police officers confronted a group of fifteen men who had kidnapped two people, and the kidnappers were Muslim extremists or terrorists off to “jihadist training” across the border. Government m...

IE reports: A simple cup of tea that Army Chief General V K Singh had with Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma on Wednesday sparked off a series of speculation that a resolution to the age controversy was in the works. While Singh met Sharma in connection with the visit of Nepal’s Deputy Prime Minis...

Weird headline in Bloomber News: " India’s Rich Halt Power Plans in Setback to Prosperity " The article is about the rising price of coal and how it's affecting the projects of power companies. Instead of "India's rich" the headline could just have said "Indian power compani...

More Indian tourists exploring ASEAN region “Everybody is talking Cambodia and Vietnam now. The restored temples at Angkor Wat draw tourists to this ancient Cambodian city with mysterious past and rich cultural heritage,” Mr Talha said, adding that infinite stretches of powdery sand were one of Vie...

River Ravi becomes a sewage drain in Pakistan According to a 1997 study, approximately 18 cubic metres of waste per second was dumped into the Ravi and it was estimated that this would double by 2017 (keep in mind that, at the time, the minimum flow of the river was only 11 cubic meters per second)...

Difficult for Govt to sack Army Chief According to sources the government will find it difficult to sack General VK Singh even though he has moved the Supreme Court to resolve the controversy surrounding his date of birth. Sources also say that the Supreme Court will certainly object if General Sin...

Punjabi-Seraiki dishum-bishum Seraiki is a just dialect of Punjabi and not a different language. Moreover, the Seraiki population in Punjab is 17%, while 40% of Sindh’s population is Seraiki. Given these statistics, where should a Seraiki province first be made, Punjab or Sindh? Haven’t Punjabis al...

A 2008 article in IE It is learnt that in his original application to joint the Army, Singh’s date was wrongly entered due to a clerical error at his school. This mistake was subsequently corrected by Singh and the correct date of birth was confirmed and registered at the AG’s branch. But the MS br...

Rajasthan plans four 1GW solar parks The four parks – to be set up in Jodhpur (below photo), Jaisalmer, Bikaner and Barmer – will mirror Gujarat’s 500MW Charanka project, which offers developers easy grid connections and other benefits. http://www.rechargenews.com/multimedia/archive/00043/jodhpur_4...

Myanmar in everyone's spotlight As big as France and Britain combined, Myanmar and its 60 million people sit at the crossroads between China, India and Southeast Asia, with ports on the Indian Ocean and Andaman Sea, making it a vital energy security asset for Beijing's landlocked western provinces ...

^^^ That thread will become another place for the usual suspects to rave, rant, and whine. And it doesn't guarantee that they'll stop casting aspersions in other threads. The only way out is to report off-topic posts and let the mods take action. By the way, I reported the off-topic posts in the Chi...

Chinese experience of handling mixed ethnicities army units But it's not easy to manage ethnic companies, which also have some Han soldiers, especially when it comes to language, as most of ethnic minority groups, coming from remote mountainous areas, have little knowledge of the Mandarin. Kuang Ca...

Tempers flare on new provinces Several MQM and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) members raised slogans slated with the word “debate” — supporting the creation of Seraiki and Hazara provinces. Talking to reporters outside Parliament, PML-N's Nisar asked how can a party which has never had a single ...

Pakistani whines on Sir Creek at the UN The 96-km estuary separates India’s Gujarat state from Pakistan’s Sindh province. The Indian claims “impinge upon Pakistan’s territorial limits in Sir Creek area and encroach upon its territorial waters, which are within its sovereign jurisdiction,” the lette...

I find it hard to imagine that Baldev Singh ever accepted the way in which non-Muslims were left to fend for themselves, or even the final form of the partition itself. It's that freakin hard to search for data on the web that you have to "imagine" stuff?? Don't address any more childish ...

**deleted** This is the original post. In our hind-sight we blame him and criticize him not supporting the violent revolutionaries (earlier threads). Would that not have given rise to the possibility of multiple regions -some with British some against, some cooperating others looking for themselves...

umm surinder wrote: There is a fundamental flaw in the whole Partition narrative. A foundational flaw. INC foreswore *any* use of violence. That meant that all they could do was negotiate, and if they did not get what they wanted, they had to just negotiate harder. They had lost all leverage. Yeah ...

Roosevelts Foreign Policy Decisions, 1940-1945 Just before he was incarcerated, Gandhi sent a personal appeal to Roosevelt. In reply the President sent a sanctimonious note in which he said: "I am sure that you will agree that the United States has consistently striven for and supported princi...

The US was certainly in favor of Indian independence, but they wanted a UNITED INDIA, and not a divided India which would result from an armed rebellion. In their view a balkanized India would fall an easy prey to Communism, which was the principal global threat at that time. The US supported the IN...

On the Time Now debate, General Bakshi and Maroof Raza suggested a way out in which the GOI can keep its desired succession without tarnishing Gen VK Singh's rep: accept his DOB but promote him to the post of India's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).

if a forced de-peg had happened, it would have given the impetus for India to take stock of the Gold present in the country and directly go to the US and make a deal with them to link Indian Gold and the economy with USD. So the part of India which was at war with Britain, would magically make a de...

the value of the parity between the Sterling and Rupee was decided by Britain, not by India. so, inherently it was designed to profit UK, even if it meant a disadvantage to India. if the rupee was taken off the peg, British economy would have collapsed overnight. this is not an exaggeration. the Em...

In our hind-sight we blame him and criticize him not supporting the violent revolutionaries (earlier threads). Would that not have given rise to the possibility of multiple regions -some with British some against, some cooperating others looking for themselves? Excellent question. The British had a...

I had quoted earlier material to show that JLN had already swung towards an opposition to any power sharing with Jinnah as representative/claimant of Muslims. I had added Menon's claims about "converting Sardar" in this connection too. Menon was close to JLN . Menon does not talk of havin...

Importance of Africa for Indian agro-business Africa is better in terms of productivity, costs, taxes, duty-free access to European markets because of their least developed country status, and lower transportation costs owing to the geographical proximity to our main markets in Europe. A rose from ...